Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of three novels and two short story collections. She has held the Sargeson Fellowship and was the 2006 winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield award. Her collection Opportunity was short listed for the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Prize, and won the 2008 Montana Medal for Fiction. She was the 2008 Montana book reviewer of the year. Her latest collection, Singularity is published in May 2009.